Santa Barbara Lesbian & Gay Film Festival
This is the schedule for the First Annual Santa Barbara Lesbian and Gay
Film Festival, November 13 and 14, 1992, Victoria Street Theatre.
For more information call 805-963-3636 or email mary@ferkel.ucsb.edu.
Friday, November 13, 8:00 PM
"Rosebud" by Cheryl Farthing
A sharply sexy story of personal awakening. Kay finds herself
unexpectedly intrigued by the open sexuality of the lesbian couple who
live next door. Surprised and excited by the intensity of her feelings,
she embraces her own repressed desire, and sets out to turn fantasy into
reality. 1992, UK, 16mm, 14 minutes.
CHANGING OUR LIVES: THE DR. EVELYN HOOKER STORY
From the '40s to the present, this powerful drama investigates the
makings of a hero for the gay and lesbian community with the aid of
startling archival footage and illuminating interviews. Through her
initial friendship with a gay student who introduced her to Los Angeles'
secret gay world of the late '40s and '50s, Dr. Hooker began pioneering
studies which resulted--in 1974--in the removal of homosexuality from
the list of official mental disorders. A tribute to a true hero for the
lesbian and gay community. 1992, USA, 16mm, 75 minutes. In Person:
Director Richard Schmiechen and Producer David Haugland.
Friday, November 13 10:00 PM Opening Night Reception
Saturday, November 14 11:00 AM
"Eye to Eye" by Isabel Hegner
A moving documentary about the late photographer Robert
Mapplethorpe told by his long time lover and model Jack Walls, narrated
over many of Mapplethorpe's portraits. 1989, USA, 16mm, 18 minutes.
"A Certain Grace" by Sandra Nettlebeck
Zelda meets Alice and they begin to work together on a photography
project. Their relationship develops, and as the erotic tension between
them heightens, the lines blur between subject and object of desire.
1992, USA, 16mm, 40 minutes.
"Relax" by Christopher Newby
A remarkably electric, imaginative and intense short in which
Steve, a young gay man, explores his feelings leading up to the result
of an HIV test. A visual feast. 1991, UK, 16mm, 25 minutes.
"Spin Cycle" by Aarin Burch
A personal narrative that confronts Director Aarin Burch's fears
and aspirations as a lover and as an artist, portraying her struggle
with self-doubt and internal turmoil. 1991, USA, 16mm, 5 minutes.
"Dreams of Passion" by Aarin Burch
An exploration of desire between two black women through movement
and dance. 1989, USA, 16mm, 5 minutes. In Person: Director Aarin
Burch
"Flames of Passion" by Richard Kwietniowski
A commuter steals an intriguing photostrip on a commuter-railway
station platform, them comes face to face with the young doctor it
depicts. 1989, UK, 16mm, 18 minutes.
"Doll Shop" by Christine Rasmussen
Working in a doll shop, Melanie feels for the first time that she
may be attracted to her female co-worker Barbara. In a daydream,
Melanie imagines she is a doll and walks through the store getting
advice from the other dolls in the shop in order to resolve her
ambiguity. 1992, USA, 16mm, 10 minutes. In Person: Director Christine
Rasmussen
Saturday, 2:00 PM
"State of Mind" by Angie Black
An experimental sexual journey as a butch babe on a motorcycle
recalls a past lover. 1990, Australia, 16mm, 13 minutes.
AMERICAN FABULOUS by Reno Dakota
Meet Jeffrey, queen of the open road. AMERICAN FABULOUS is the
oral biography of the late Jeffrey Strough, a wild, storytelling
homosexual whose unglamorously picaresque life makes for compulsively`
addictive narratives that are unbelievable, hilarious and movingly
tragic. Shot entirely from the back seat of a black 1957 Cadillac as it
moves aimlessly through Columbus, Ohio, this fascinating individual
gives a vivid account of his relentlessly wild life in a collection of
thirty-five segments of true-life tales, anecdotes, witticisms and
tantrums. 1991, USA, 16mm, 105 minutes.
Saturday, 4:00 PM
Single Exposure: The Challenge of Achieving Greater Visibility for
Gay and Lesbian Films. Free panel workshop with Judith Raiskin, Aarin
Burch, Christine Rasmussen, Richard Schmiechen, and more people than i
want to type right now.
Saturday, 5:45 PM
"Night Out" by Lawrence Johnston
Tony's world is shattered when he is viciously attacked and taken
on a hellish car ride. He fails to tell anyone, including his lover,
but a surprise visit reveals the truth. 1989, Australia, 16mm, 50
minutes.
"Because the Dawn" by Amy Goldstein
An alluring, modern-day vampire musical comedy in which a female
photographer's sensual obsession with a female vampire helps to quench
the ultimate thirst of the vampire--to be recognized in the modern
world. 1988, USA, 16mm, 40 minutes.
"How to Kill Her" by Ana Maria Simo and Ela Troyano
Maura is obsessed with Elsa, but neither a visit to her therapist
or thoughts of methods of killing or torturing Elsa can completely
exorcise the memories of happier times. 1989, USA, 16mm, 15 minutes.
Saturday, 8:00 PM
"True Blue" by Maureen Brownsey
A surreal dark comedy where Elizabeth, a lesbian woman, is haunted
by pregnant women, large dead bugs, women's shoes and a headless boss.
1992, USA, 16mm, 7 minutes. In Person: Director Maureen Brownsey
"The Dead Boys' Club" by Mark Christopher
Toby's cousin gives him a pair of shoes previously owned by his
deceased lover. When worn, he's transported to the '70's pre-AIDS world
of disco, hot guys and glitter balls, juxtaposing the generational
differences that AIDS has wrought. 1992, USA, 16mm, 25 minutes.
THE TWIN BRACELETS by Yu-Shan Huang
THE TWIN BRACELETS is a lesbian version of RAISE THE RED LANTERN,
taking place in the '80s. Hui-hua is a bright-eyed rebellious teenager
of a Chinese minority tribe, growing up in a fishing village where
people have no concept of human rights, women's liberation, lesbian
love, or even divorce. While our heroine is confronted with the daily
oppression of the ancient traditions, she seeks love and escape in the
arms of her childhood buddy Hsui. The beautiful details of the Chinese
minority village life and the atmospheric cinematography are truly a
feast for the eye. A remarkable film, written and directed by women.
1990, Hong Kong/Taiwan, 35mm, 100 minutes.
Saturday, 11:00 PM
"Always on Sunday" by Connie B. DeMille
A group of sailors in a bar on a Sunday afternoon, cruising an
ambitious group of "gals." 1960, USA, 16mm, 9 minutes.
"We're Talking Vulva" by Tracy Traeger and Shawna Dempsey
A five minute feminist romp concerned with the care and feeding of
happy female genitalia. 1989, Canada, 16mm, 5 minutes.
"Beauties Without a Cause" by David Weissman
Four lawless drag queens prepare for a night of light crime in
this delicious moral comedy with compelling hairdos and an excitable
soundtrack. Like all great American cinema, it's about our country's
mythology: youth, speed, peroxide blondes and a car crash. 1986, 16mm,
7 minutes.
VEGAS IN SPACE by Phillip R. Ford
An outer-space musical comedy dealing with glamorous, irrational
behavior on a 23rd Century, all-female pleasure planet. The four-man
crew of the U.S.S. Intercourse races on a secret mission to the Planet
Clitoris, a "babes-only" world where men are forbidden to touch down.
Ordered by the Empress of Earth to swallow gender-reversal pills, the
spacemen swap their sex to go undercover as 20th Century showgirls and
are propelled into a dizzying caper to capture the perpetrator of a
heinous crime that has hurled the orbiting resort on its path of doom.
1991, USA, 16mm, 85 minutes. In Person: Director Phillip R. Ford,
Actor Miss X, William Massey
Mary Cardenas
mary@ferkel.ucsb.edu